How Long to Read Book of the Sphinx

How Long Does it Take to Read Book of the Sphinx?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Book of the Sphinx by Willis Goth Regier

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.

How long is Book of the Sphinx?

Book of the Sphinx by Willis Goth Regier is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Book of the Sphinx Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Book of the Sphinx aloud.

What Reading Level is Book of the Sphinx?

Book of the Sphinx is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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